- From: Jim Davis <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:59:56 PDT
- To: John Tigue <jtigue@datachannel.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
At 11:15 AM 7/15/98 PDT, John Tigue wrote: >...the DTD could be modified to make it impossible to >have attributes associated with the properties being requested I take it that you think the answer then is "yes", that this restriction is intended but was just never stated? If so, your proposed solution is overkill. If you want to restrict property elements to being both empty and attribute-less, it's fine to just say so in natural language in the spec. I think it's fine if the DTD overgenerates (to use a technical term). You can add additional restructions in english or in EBNF if you really want precision. The expressive power of the DTD language is too low, and if we tried to define the syntax so that we could ensure that every document that was valid according to the DTD was also legal WebDAV, we'd have to tweak the spec considerably. Consider the "prop" tag, for example. Anyway, thanks for the answer. Jim
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